Social Psychology and Society
2020. Vol. 11, no. 3, 51–69
doi:10.17759/sps.2020110304
ISSN: 2221-1527 / 2311-7052 (online)
Gender Differences in Attribution of Guilt to the Participants of Typical and Atypical Marital Violence Scenarios
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Keywords: belief in a just world, gender favoritism, marital violence, attribution of guilt to the victim, attribution of guilt to the aggressor
Journal rubric: Empirical Research
Article type: scientific article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2020110304
For citation: Ulybina E.V., Abbasova S.E. Gender Differences in Attribution of Guilt to the Participants of Typical and Atypical Marital Violence Scenarios. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2020. Vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 51–69. DOI: 10.17759/sps.2020110304. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)
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